A house church can best be described as:
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Images depicting the harvesting of grapes and the brewing of wine signified what in Early Christian art?
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Old St. Peter’s Basilica was believed to have been built on:
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The earliest representations of Christ (as on the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus) depict Christ as:
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The first Christian churches (not house churches) were modeled on which type of Roman building?
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The inclusion of Adam and Eve in Early Christian art was intended to remind the viewer of:
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The most famous Early Christian house church is:
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The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus suggests the growing dominance of Christianity because:
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What brought about the building of many churches and the shift of Christian art from private to public?
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What is an orant figure?
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What is the main distinction between Christian imagery created before Constantine and Christian imagery created after Constantine?
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What was one major difference between Christianity and other mystery religions that were practiced in the first through third centuries AD?
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What was the focal point of an Early Christian basilican church?
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Where would you be most likely to find Christian art in late antique Rome?
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Which of the following buildings does NOT have a basilican plan?
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Which of the following Early Christian subjects has no precedent in ancient art?
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Which of the following Old Testament stories is an example of a “prefiguration” of a New Testament story?
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Which of the following was NOT one of the ‘types’ of images produced in Early Christian art?
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Which of the following was NOT present in Old St. Peter’s Basilica?
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Which Roman emperor was the first Christian emperor?
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An “Acheiropoieta” is ________.
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Emperor Justinian is best known for ________________.
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Generally speaking, icon paintings:
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Hagia Sophia can be considered a combination of which two types of church plans?
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Hagia Sophia literally means ____________.
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How did Byzantine mosaics differ from Roman mosaics?
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How is the dome of Hagia Sophia supported?
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In the Early Byzantine period, _______________ (in addition to the already established basilican type) was produced more and more frequently.
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In which of the following works of art can you find a pendentive?
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Tesserae are an element of which type of decoration?
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The city of Ravenna is known for its ___________.
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The existence of Byzantine ivories is evidence of ___________.
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The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai has what special role in the history of icon painting?
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The production of which of the following art forms declined during the Early Byzantine period?
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To what does the phrase ‘Triumph of Orthodoxy’ refer?
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What are the names of the two architects that designed Hagia Sophia?
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What building does the historian Prokopius refer to as having a “perplexing spectacle?”
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What sort of artwork would an iconoclast have been opposed to?
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What was exceptional about the way in which Hagia Sophia’s architects designed the building?
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What was the function of a Byzantine icon?
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When was the iconoclastic period in Byzantium?
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Which Byzantine art form is most closely associated with the “encaustic” technique?
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Which of the following depicts a triumphal image?
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Which of the following features would you be least likely to encounter in an icon painting?
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Which of the following images is most stylistically related to the Greco-Roman artistic tradition?
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Which of the following sites has the best-preserved collection of Early Byzantine icons?
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Which of the following statements about Hagia Sophia is NOT true?
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Which of the following statements about icon painting is false?
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Who commissioned the building of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople?
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Who founded Constantinople?
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With regards to their pictorial arts, Byzantine art can best be called an art of ________.
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____________ magnify the effects of light coming through the windows at the base of the dome of Hagia Sophia.
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Early Byzantine culture and society was most closely aligned with which other culture?
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After the sack of Constantinople in 1204, ______________________.
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Hosios Loukas Monastery is located in which region of the former Byzantine Empire?
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In what way does the Basilica of San Marco in Venice resemble an Early Byzantine church?
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Middle Byzantine architecture was most influenced by:
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The ninth century mosaic of the Virgin and Child is an example of _____________.
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What does Professor Thomas F. Matthews argue about stone relief sculpture in early Armenia?
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When did the Rus’ adopt Orthodox Christianity?
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When did the so-called “Macedonian Renaissance” occur?
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Which church incorporated sculpture that was looted from Constantinople?
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Which culture produced the “Umilenie” type icon of the Virgin and Child?
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Which event marked the definitive separation of the Latin and Orthodox Christian Churches?
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Which of the following cities benefitted the most, financially, from the Sack of Constantinople during the Twelfth Crusade?
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Which of the following did NOT take place during the Middle Byzantine Period?
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Which of the following painters did NOT work in Russia?
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Which of the following works of art provides an example of the trade relationship between Byzantium and the West?
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With which culture did the Middle Byzantine world NOT come into contact?
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Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Middle Byzantine churches?
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After the fall of Byzantium in 1453, which city claimed to be new capital of Orthodox Christianity?
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After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Hagia Sophia ____________.
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Andrei Rublev was also a(n) _________.
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Architectural decoration in the Late Byzantine Period _________________.
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Art produced on the Island of Crete in the Late Byzantine period shows the influence of which two cultures?
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During the Early, Middle, and Late Byzantine Periods, Orthodox Christian and Islamic culture came into contact with one another in which of the following ways?
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Portraits of people from Byzantium’s neighboring regions reveal that _________.
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The Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy celebrates ____________.
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The Kahn Madonna is an example of an icon that merges which two artistic traditions?
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The Kariye Camii can best be described as __________.
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The Madonna and Child by Duccio is an example of Byzantine influence in ________.
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The main source of tension between Byzantium and the West was _________.
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The Monastery of Constantine Lips in Istanbul (Constantinople) is an example of _____________.
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The Mosaic decoration in the Kariye Camii _______________.
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The style of the pictorial imagery in the Kariye Camii is _____________.
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Theophanes the Greek is most famous for painting ___________.
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What pictorial technique was popularized in Italy due to Byzantine influence in the Late Byzantine period?
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What took place in 1453?
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Which art form was arguably the LEAST innovative in the Late Byzantine Period?
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Which event inundated Venice with Byzantine art?
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Which Islamic-inspired detail is included in the decoration of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas in Greece?
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Which of the following cities had a merchant colony in Constantinople?
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Which period of Byzantine painting is sometimes seen as “Westernizing?”
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Which type of icons were produced in the greatest numbers during the Late Byzantine period?
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Which type of imagery became more and more ubiquitous in the Late Byzantine Period, as the empire’s reach was most expansive?
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Who painted Russia’s most famous icon, “The Holy Trinity”?
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Who painted the thirteenth-century Saint Francis Altarpiece in Italy?
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With which neighboring culture did Byzantium share its iconic double-headed eagle symbol?
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___________ was a thirteenth-century Italian painter who worked in the Byzantine tradition.
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Which of the following problems did the Byzantine Empire face in the Late Byzantine Period?
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